16 June 2001 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, for services to literature. He was a Fellow of both The Royal Society of Literature (elected in 2001) and The Royal Geographical Society. Farhi also briefly worked on the BBC's science fiction series Doctor Who during its early stages of production in 1963. He drafted scripts for the serial "Farewell, Great Macedon" and the stand-alone episode "The Yellow Arc of Fragrance", neither of which ultimately entered production. Audio adaptations of these scripts would later appear in 2010 as The First Doctor Boxset as part of the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories line released by Big Finish Productions. Personal life Farhi was first married to Monique Hassid, and they divorced amicably after 12 years. In 1978 he married psychoanalytic psychotherapist Nina Sievers (née Gould; 1943–2009), and has a stepdaughter, Rachel Sievers, a speech therapist. He was related to the late prominent businessman Üzeyir Garih and was the cousin of fashion designer Nicole Farhi. His death in March 2019 was reported in The Bookseller. Filmography The Flesh and the Fiends (1960) – Stallholder (uncredited) From Russia with Love (1963) – Gypsy (uncredited) You Only Live Twice (1967) – Control Room Technician (uncredited) Novels The Pleasure of Your Death (Constable, 1972) The Last of Days (Bodley Head & Crown, US, 1983) Journey Through the Wilderness (Macmillan/Picador, 1989) Children of the Rainbow (Saqi, 1999) Young Turk (Saqi 2004) A Designated Man (Telegram Books, 2009) Songs From Two Continents Poems (Saqi 2011) References Further reading KOCIEJOWSKI, Marius. God's Zoo – Artists, Exiles, Londoners (Carcanet, 2014) contains a biographical chapter "Old Turk, Young Turk – Moris Farhi and his Journey to the Fountain of Youth". External links Listen to Moris Farhi reading his poetry – a British Library recording, 28 May 2008. Profile at English PEN Article by Farhi at the New Statesman'' Moris Farhi Gift Book Catalogue at Boğaziçi University 1935 births 2019 deaths British Sephardi Jews Turkish Sephardi Jews Turkish writers British writers British Jewish writers People from Ankara Robert College alumni Members of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature English people of Turkish-Jewish descent Alumni of RADA Turkish emigrants to the United Kingdom Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom